Most yacht design content online focuses on how things look.This group focuses on how decisions are made.
To start, I’ll use a real project:a 56 ft Fast Cruiser sailing yacht developed as my bachelor thesis.
It’s not a built yacht. It's a complete conceptual project, taken far enough to be:
- technically consistent
- logically defensible
- realistic in terms of structure, stability and performance
This group is not about:
- inspiration without constraints
- render-first design
- academic theory disconnected from reality
It is about:
- proportions before style
- layout as a balance problem
- appendages driven by sailing logic
- structure, weight and stability as design tools
- knowing when a concept is solid — and when it’s not
Over the next days, I’ll break this project down step by step.Not to show a “perfect yacht”, but to show how yacht designers think.
If you’re here just to scroll, that’s fine.If you want to understand how yacht design actually works, stay close.